Ryan is a character in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 (1990). He is played by the actor William Butler, who Holds the distinction of being the only actor in film history who worked with three of The "Big Four of Horror" (Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface and Michael Myers) with Michael Myers being the only Horror Icon his character has not been killed by.
Biography[]
He is the self-centered boyfriend of Michelle. In general, he is good towards her but can be stubborn at times. In the film he is traveling alongside his girlfriend to Florida to deliver a car to her father. While they are traveling through Texas they pass a mass grave containing a remains of several butchered bodies, there is police TV cameras etc. on the way they hit an armadillo on the road, Ryan ends the armadillo's suffering after Michelle refuses to. They stop for gas at a local service station, where Ryan decides to use the toilet, while he is away an employee, Alfredo rushes to Michelle and starts taking pictures of her without consent, he then tried to sell her the pictures for 5 dollars. When michelle declined, Alfredo seemingly becomes mad and starts ranting in a lewd manner. Moments later a guy called Edward Tex joins in and saves Michelle from this horrible encounter. Ryan comes out to find his girlfriend talking to Tex, and instantly signaled to him and made it known that Michelle is his. They take a route which Tex recommended but before that happened, Alfredo shot at them as they left the station. Hours later, while still on the road, An unknown driver throws a dead coyote at their windshield, the car came to a stop after a tire popped and while Ryan is changing a tire, Leatherface out of nowhere attacks with his chainsaw, the two flee the scene and tried running over Leatherface. Bloodied Tex jumps in front of their car causing them to crash as well as another driver, a survivalist namedBenny. Benny introduced himself to Michelle and Ryan before leaving to get help for them and find Tex. Later Ryan was caught in bear trap and started to bleed from his leg, slashed by Leatherface with his chainsaw, hanged on pair of upside-down meathooks and finally he was struck with a large sledgehammer in the head, crashing his skull. After this Ryan finally died. Benny later killed off the cannibals who killed him and saved Michelle from them. His body probably left hanging on a meat hooks in the cannibals' house, His body was probably never found and was left to decompose. In the alternate ending Ryan's body was found by a sheriff. Leatherface's daughter (the one who killed Ryan) was arrested and put in a police car.
Ryan's corpse.